Hi My family spent our Summer holidays around the Isle of Sheppey,Leysdoown and Canvey Island in the early 50s we stayed on the campsite in very basic chalets and caravans gas lights no toilet/bathrooms but we had great times we lived in Newington Butts (Suffield Road) a bomb damaged slum area we moved to Nelson Square 1n 1957 but still holidayed in Kent.. . I still have some snaps of us on the beach and sea defence, an uncle had a chalet on Canvey Island till washed away in the flood.
Geraldine
04-Jul-2017 11:57
My pictures @ Trevor Edwards. Would you allow a couple of pictures of warden to be used on the local warden parish council website?
Mark B
25-Nov-2010 14:42
Northdene is still standing. My Nan used to live there
Claire
26-Mar-2010 11:08
Hi Sally, i've fallen upon this website, it's great to be able to look back and remember how the island used to be. I grew up there from the age of 4 and moved when i was 30. I remember the fort that we used to hide in, thats long gone. there were also houses that had eventually gone over the cliff and were at angles, dangerous but at the time great fun to play in, we used to call them the dizzy houses! Sadly they've disappeared too. The post office and houses at wardenpoint have all gone.
It's been a real memory trip looking at this site. Big thank you.
Sally
04-Mar-2009 11:57
What a terrific photo gallery of Sheppey, THANK YOU! I was particularly pleased to find the photo of Warden Bay beac, as it looks now. I've been searching the internet for images of Sheppey and John Cooper suggested your website. Generaltions of our family, from London, hoidayed on the Isle of Sheppey and as a child I fell in love with it. We used to stay in Warden Bay (in a bungalow called "Northdene") and in the evenings we would walk over the cliffs to Warden Point. I was fascinated by the white house which eventually fell into the sea (in the 1950s), and by the way the cottages at Warden Point were in danger of being swallowed up too. Is the old fort still there? I remember a World War 1 (I think) fort which had been on the cliffs, but which when I was a child could be paddled to at low tide, out in the wet sand. It intrigued me. Is it still there? Or gone forever, under the sand? (I can't see it in any photos). Your photo shows sea defences, the rocks along the shore, so presumably the cliffs and the land to Warden Point is now protected.
Thanks you so much! I'd love to go back there and see it all for myself (but live in Cornwall and havent made it for many years). Here's hoping!
